When your creature is a mix of a pangolin and star-nosed mole (oh, and bigger than a plane)
How Framestore made the Frost Vark in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, plus behind the scenes of their Brambleboar.
VIDEO: Why Gareth Edwards kept some of the early VFX tests for ‘The Creator’ in the actual movie
'The Creator' director Gareth Edwards and ILM visual effects supervisor Jay Cooper sit down with befores & afters.
Here’s how The Mill put a mullet on an eagle (and a turtle) for the Kawasaki Super Bowl spot
Check out the video VFX breakdown for the behind the scenes process.
ILM’s Rob Bredow shares his thoughts on driving creative and technical design
befores & afters sat down with the Industrial Light & Magic SVP and chief creative officer at SIGGRAPH Asia.
Hand-made paintings and sculpted maquettes were part of the VFX creation process on ‘Dial of Destiny’
Production visual effects supervisor Andrew Whitehurst from ILM details more on de-ageing Harrison Ford, plus the film’s trip into the time fissure.
96th Academy Awards – VFX Oscar nominees are…
Read the full list here!
See the 22nd Annual VES Awards nominees right here
See the 25 categories and nominees at befores & afters.
The meticulous art of sending a locomotive off the edge of a cliff
A combination of full-scale practical effects, and invisible visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic, made it possible in ‘Dead Reckoning Part
Here’s the different tech and artistry Industrial Light & Magic employed to de-age Harrison Ford for ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
Behind ILM FaceSwap and the process the VFX studio followed to turn Ford from 80 to 42.
‘It was literally: shoot, here’s the plate, make it work, go’
Behind the slightly old-school VFX approach on ‘The Creator’.
Sci-Tech winners include OpenVDB, Marvelous Designer, USD, Alembic and the Blind Driver Roof Pod
See the scientific and technical achievements to be honored here.
Don’t miss Legacy Effects’ showcase page for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
Featuring creature designs, concepts, fabrication, costumes and props.
How the underwater scenes in ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ were filmed
Official production notes detail the Eyeline Studios approach to filming the actors with volumetric capture.
‘A grungy, gritty feel’
Behind the visual effects of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire.
Here’s the VFX Bake-Off list!
The ten films still in contention for the 96th Academy Award for Best Visual Effects have been announced.
How the biggest VFX moments in Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ were made
Breaking down that confronting horse death by cannonball, the Battle of Waterloo, a fight on ice, crafting ships at sea, and invisible
My top 5 highlights from SIGGRAPH Asia Sydney: ML and in-depth sessions on VFX
Rising Sun Picture's comprehensive look at their ML REVIZE set of tools was a big highlight of the week, which also included
‘The pain comes in just making that early commitment to the creative vision’
'Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget' director Sam Fell on the challenges of making a new–and even more bold–Aardman stop-motion film.
Crafting a plane crash, and its aftermath, for ‘Society of the Snow’
Behind the scenes of J.A. Bayona’s tale of the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team air disaster.
Miniatures, LED walls and live-action animals stitched together: the VFX of ‘Poor Things’
How Union VFX helped craft the surreal and hyperreal world of this Emma Stone film.
How VFX turned Tom Hiddleston’s dance moves into painful-looking timeslipping scenes
Also, behind the scenes of Framestore’s spaghettification and the Yggdrasil finale in season 2 of ‘Loki’.
Here’s how Beast was made for that end-credits scene in ‘The Marvels’
The character was all CG. Plus, how the VFX team handled teleportations, how they dealt with Brie Larson's hair, filming Goose and
‘A great big show of visual effects where nobody will know that we did anything’
Behind ILM’s 700 invisible visual effects shots for Martin Scorsese’s 'Killers of the Flower Moon'.
ILM’s Rob Coleman on co-chairing this year’s SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival
The ILM creative director also reflects on the importance of his past SIGGRAPH experiences.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Behind the visual effects of ‘NYAD’
In this EXCLUSIVE visual effects breakdown video, find out the ‘NYAD’ visual effects team helped turn Annette Bening into an open ocean
You can now watch Framestore’s ‘FLITE’ in full online
The virtual production short film was also covered in depth in befores & afters magazine.
‘The water needed to have a performance’
How the ‘NYAD’ visual effects team helped turn Annette Bening into an open ocean endurance swimmer.
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